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Apple mail has this really cool feature that when you email someone a file that is too large, it uploads it to Icloud automatically and then sends that a person
by Kpourdeilami 9y ago
Apple mail has this really cool feature that when you email someone a file that is too large, it uploads it to Icloud automatically and then sends that a person a downloadable link from Icloud that expires in 30 days
- oatmealsnap 9y agoAnd most people wouldn't even know that is happening in the background.
- digi_owl 9y agoUntil something break, because receiver is not in the Apple fold. And then it is the receivers fault for not walking in the grace of Jobs...
- mcphage 9y agoIt doesn't matter if the receiver uses Apple products or not—so long as the sender has an iCloud account, it'll work. As far as the receiver cares, it's just a URL where the file is.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- matthewmacleod 9y agoThat’s a baseless complaint.
- pmlnr 9y agoThunderbird has/had this as well, you could even select a few providers, like Box and that Ubuntu cloud which is now deprecated. Probably a decent solution, but still needs a 3rd party server, which you didn't with the p2p im solutions.
- vanous 9y agoI use it regularly and have self hosted webdav server for this reason. iirc, extension for custom server is required, but the functionality comes from Firefox.
- strictnein 9y agoGmail does this as well, although I'm not sure about the expiration part
- verytrivial 9y agoI can't tell if you're being serious or not.
- matthewmacleod 9y agoI don’t know what wouldn’t be serious about this. A number of mail clients do the same thing, and it’s useful.
- ceejayoz 9y agoSure, until you go back two months later to re-download the documentation out of your email, and the link has expired.
- zild3d 9y agogmail does the same (to drive of course)
- e12e 9y agoHow large is too large?
- azernik 9y agoGmail adds files to Google Drive - permanently.
- marak830 9y agoUnless your gdrive is full.